Yandex becomes world’s fourth most used search engine

According to statistics, the Russian search engine edged its competitor Microsoft, which performs searches through its Bing, microsoft.com
and other services, in November and consolidated its lead in December.
ComScore data shows that Yandex processed over 4.84 billion queries (2.8
percent of global search market) in December.

According to statistics, the Russian search engine edged its competitor Microsoft, which performs search through its Bing, microsoft.com,
and other services, in November and consolidated its lead in December.
ComScore data shows that Yandex processed over 4.84 billion queries (2.8
percent of global search market) in December, whereas Microsoft handled
only 4.48 billion searches (2.5 percent).

However, GigaOm points out that Yandex still trails Microsoft
search services with regard to the total number of users, 74.4 million
versus 286.6 million people, respectively.

Google remained the world’s biggest search system with 114.73
billion (65.2 percent) queries recorded in December. China’s Baidu came
second with 14.4 billion (8.2 percent) searches, and Yahoo was third
with 8.63 billion (4.9 percent) user queries processed in December.

Yandex leads the way on the Russian search market, where its footprint
is estimated to be 60%, according to the Liveinternet statistics
service. Google plays second fiddle in Russia with approximately 26
percent of the market.